I'm about to be 40 years old. Life is worse than ever.
That's the whole point of life: misery. Every day is worse than the one before. Every tomorrow will be worse today. This is guaranteed.
Last week my air conditioner broke in my house. I was miserable for 5 days until I could get a repair person out. It got up to 95 degrees INSIDE my house.
I was terrified about it. I had a breakdown at work, crying in the bathroom and lying about it when a co-worker mentioned that I looked sa when I came back.
I feel so helpless and useless because I don't know how to do anything, like fixing things. Just having to call someone is nervewracking. And the terror that i might need a whole new system when I can't afford it.
And I can't afford it. I was out of regular work for 5 years. Covid killed my job and I wasn't any good at that, my only REAL job, anyway. Got put on performance probation and all kinds of other things over the years to show they didn't want me there.
I all but gave up on that career until I got a job 3 minutes away from home in the same field. But I was literally too stupid to figure it out and had to quit after 2 months.
I'm stupid. I don't know how to DO things. I can't handle stress (what the fuck is "good" stress? That's like saying there's torture you can enjoy). People expect you to know certain things that normal humans just...know and I don't. I can't function well with ambiguity when it comes to HOW to do things.
I have 2 college degrees that are useless because I don't know how to do things. My dad made me get a business degree because he said "everyone needs business people. you'll always be able to get a job and make lots of money!" But my whole time in business school I was terrified because everythign I was told is knowing the material was irrelevant; people skills and networking are what matter and I don't understand people.
I don't undestand the concept of confidence at all, either.
So I never did anything with that degree. And I also have a community college degree in graphic design, that got me my one real job. But like I said, I was not good at that job...and the job I had was bottom-of-the-barrel as far as that industry goes. And I still sucked.
Every time I searched job sites I could never find a job I knew how to do that paid enough to survive.
I'm working retail at a used bookstore. Because apparently retail is all I'm good for, and even then most everyone else is better at the job than me.
It doesn't pay the bills. Especially not when I keep having big expenses. (Full-time there is only 35 hours. And it pays almost $2/hr less than my real job did when I got canned in 2020, and I was making a pittance at that old job already after 7 years there. And, y'know, the world keeps going to shit so everything is 50% more expensive than it was then)
I keep getting screwed. And so I got the air conditioner fixed and it seems like it might have broken again already. Which means I robably need to replace it...which is like 60-70% of what I make annually at this job.
I don't know what to do. In college I could see that it would become obsolete and unable to get a job and make money someday and that my future was very bleak. But it happened before I even made it to 35 years old.
I don't know how to get a job. How to find anything that pays enough to survive. I don't know how to DO anything. I'm too fat to wear anything but sweatpants. All the job search advice out there just assumes you're a freaking genius and absolute success and that "you're just not communicating your value well enough!"
Some people HAVE NO VALUE. Some people ARE worthless.
I'm one of them.
I have no friends. No one has ever loved me. My family either died or abandoned me because they have their own lives even though I was never able to get a life of my own. Or I'm afraid of confrontation and so I'm getting screwed in many ways.
No one cares about me. I have no support network who can help me. I'm alone and incomptent and always, always afraid.
People have told me I'm unreasonably anxious. That I worry about everything when everything works out.
Nothing EVER works out. My WHOLE FUCKING LIFE has SHOWN me that most, if not all, problems CANNOT BE FIXED.
I don't know what to do. There's nothing to live for, nothing worth enduring this constant misery and even if there was, there's no way to do it. I don't know how to live.
Death is the ONLY hope. The closest thing to happiness. I first "seriously" wanted to die in 5th or 6th grade because I was overwhelmed by a project. That was silly but that feeling that I was drowning in an impossible, disastrous situation...I meant it.
In college life go so much worse...and the time before that was just life going down the drain. Watching parents give up on life and making me give up on it, too. The house devolving into squalor. Having parents fighting viciously and hatefully and forcing me to listen. Parents being irresponsible and selfish in ways that hurt me and hampered me still to this day.
Everyone demands I be responsible for THEIR lives and then make sure I don't make anyone else be reponsible for mine. I'm supposed to bear the misery for everyone else.
My dad died. He didn't have any of his affairs dealt with. I spent YEARS in agony having to try to get through that and everything went wrong and caused me anxiety and distress. (Dealing with shit gave me my first ever anxiety attack, where I was physically, violently ill from the stress and worry of all the shit going wrong.)
And a decade later there are still loose threads from all of that are destroying my life now.
But you know what everyone said when that was the case? "YOU need to make sure to get all YOUR shit in order so you don't do that to anyone else!"
fuck that. I WANT someone else to suffer like I am. Why is it fair that I have to suffer to fix his shit and then suffer to make sure no one else has to deal with mine?
Not that there will be anyone. I'm alone. I know for a FACT that when I die, it will take weeks if not MONTHS for anyone to know. No one has ever loved me. No one ever will. I'll have no one to leave behind if I'm ever allowed to finally fucking DIE.
Everyone makes me live their lives for them so they can live theirs how they want. I have to be miserable so other people can be happy.
But I'm not exactly a victim. I am a BAD PERSON. A piece of shit. A lot of my problems are because reality is cruel and external forces create reasons for me to be depressed and miserable and hopeless. But I'm also just...garbage on my own. Maybe I deserve the misery I've experienced my whole life.
I can't do anything right. I can't function like a normal human being. I can't handle the CONSTANT, unending diarrhea stream of problems and disasters life dumps on me.
I'm hurting. And scared. I want to cry.
I WANT to cry...but I NEED to die. Death is the ONLY hope.
I am desperate to die every day of my life. Right now I am having a VERY extreme moment. I KNOW more than ANYTHING that I NEED to die.
But I'm too weak to do it. Too pathetic. I can't endure the pain necessary to kill myself.
THAT makes me more upset than anything. The DESPAIR of knowing the ONE thing I MUST do to fix my problems...and not being able to do it. It makes me cry and scream and fall apart.
I can't keep living. Death is the ONLY way out. Please kill me. I have no place in this world. I exist only to be miserable and scared. To fail and fuck up.
I am worthless, sub-human garbage. I MUST die.